Life-saving but limb-threatening: vasopressor-induced acral ischaemia and necrosis – two cases and review of the literature

Acral ischaemia and necrosis are rare but severe complications of high-dose or prolonged vasopressor therapy in critically ill patients. Although these agents are life-saving in distributive shock, intense a-adrenergic vasoconstriction, microcirculatory failure, and coagulopathy can converge to caus...

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Principais autores:	Vasileios Leivaditis, Francesk Mulita, Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos, Chrysa Andrikopoulou, Konstantinos Tasios, Elias Liolis, Andreas Antzoulas, Panagiotis Antzoulas, Dimitrios Litsas, Panagiotis Dimitrios Papadopoulos, George Theofanis, Ioannis Boucharas, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Tamas Büki, Manfred Dahm, Spyros Papadoulas
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Termedia Publishing House 2026-03-01
coleção:	Archives of Medical Science: Atherosclerotic Diseases
Assuntos:	amputation norepinephrine vasopressor-induced ischaemia acral necrosis symmetrical peripheral gangrene medico-legal implications
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